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After a decade of reported human rights abuses, Hugo Banzer Suárez schedules gener-
al elections and loses. He ignores the results, but is eventually forced to step down by a
coup.
1982
The Bolivian Congress appoints a woman, Lidia Gueilar, as interim president during a
tumultuous period of several presidential elections and coups. The rule of Bolivia's
first woman president is brief.
1985
Paz Estenssoro's New Economic Policy promotes spending cuts and privatization, res-
ulting in strikes and protests by the miners' union; massive unemployment follows the
crash of the price of tin.
1987
The US begins sending Drug Enforcement Administration anti-coca squadrons into the
Beni and Chapare regions, where coca has generated substantial income for the grow-
ers and traffickers.
1989
With no candidate winning a majority in the presidential election, the National Con-
gress is left to select Jaime Paz Zamora of the MIR as the 73rd president of Bolivia.
1993
Gonzalo 'Goni' Sánchez is elected president on a center-left free-marketeering ticket
and, with his government, proceeds to introduce landmark social, economic and consti-
tutional reforms.
2002-03
Goni wins the presidency with only 22.5% of the vote. After massive protests against
his unpopular economic policies lead to more than 60 deaths, he resigns in October
2003.
2005
 
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